Photo/stories from the field: encountering emotions in the field
Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores messy emotions in everyday life, and calls for a new framework to recognise the value of emotion and affect in research
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Photo/stories from the field: the traffic, fear, and the city
Vinnarasan Aruldoss reflects on how children’s experiences of public places impact everyday life, play, visiting friends, and navigating neighbourhoods
Photo/stories from the field: lunch encounters and ethnographic distractions
Food, a full plate of memory, and an anthropology of not paying attention: Christos Varvantakis explores the materiality of food in research settings.
Photo/stories from the field: those books of fieldwork and parenting you know don’t exist
Melissa Nolas explores some of the emotionality in fieldwork relationships of care and concern between researchers and participants
Photo/stories from the field: the curtain as a signifier of ‘private’ and ‘public’ in the research space
Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores the ways participants create symbolically private and public spaces through material practices